A Mountain Home woman, 20-year-old Rebecca Payne, has been arrested and charged following a dispute allegedly leading her to pull a kitchen knife on a man, cutting him lightly on the left side of his neck. Payne’s arrest Wednesday was her third this month, according to records with the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office. Records also indicate she was arrested and charged in 2017 for pulling a knife on a member of management at a local business and threatening to kill her.
in the latest incident, according to the probable cause affidavit, a sheriff’s deputy responded to a residence along Cochran Drive Wednesday where dispatch advised Payne reportedly had a knife and had hurt an individual.
Upon arrival, the deputy observed Payne running from the residence, trying to stay in the shadows of the side yard. When the officer finally was able to stop Payne, she refused to put down the items in her hand, saying the victim had the knife.
With a second deputy arriving on the scene, neither was able to determine Payne still had the weapon on her person, while she continued to refuse to put down the items she was carrying.
When Payne finally dropped the items and the officers began to search for the weapon, the Mountain Home woman began to fight with law enforcement. She was later restrained and taken into custody, leading officers to speak to the man she had allegedly cut with the knife.
He and his wife told officers Payne had been staying with them a couple of days. Earlier in the evening, Payne and the man’s wife got into an argument over a cellphone. The argument reportedly turned physical between the two women, with Payne allegedly pushing the victim’s wife and striking her twice.
When the victim intervened, Payne reportedly attacked him with the kitchen knife. Both the husband and wife declined medical treatment.
The kitchen knife was found in the bathroom of the residence.
Payne has been charged with aggravated assault, third-degree battery and resisting arrest.
Online records with the Baxter County Detention Center website indicate her bond was set at $7,500.
The latest incident with Payne allegedly pulling a knife on an individual is not her first.
In July 2017, she pled guilty to charges filed against her and was given 12 months in prison.
Payne had been charged in connection with two incidents in which she threatened violence or actually committed battery, according to court records.
In one case, Payne was accused of pulling a knife on a member of management at a local business and threatening to kill her after the Mountain Home woman was asked to leave the premises. In the other case, Payne was charged with slipping out of handcuffs and swinging them as a weapon, striking a Baxter County deputy sheriff who had taken her to Baxter Regional Medical Center for treatment.
The deputy asked a witness to the event to call 9-1-1 for assistance, and the call brought four Mountain Home Police Department units to the scene. They were able to place Payne in the deputy’s vehicle, and she was transported back to the jail.
Payne underwent a psychological evaluation and was fit to proceed.
In a petition seeking to set up a guardianship for Payne, it was reported she does have “severe” emotional problems and is developmentally delayed. The petition also described Payne as having “poor impulse control,” among other problems. She was prescribed six psychoactive medications, according to the guardianship petition.
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